Manuela Herrera

Manuela Herrera (1853-) was the Mexican wife of American Wild West outlaw Charlie Bowdre. They met while the Lincoln County Regulators were in hiding in Mexico during the Lincoln County War, and they married; however, their wedding dance was interrupted when Billy the Kid announced that the Regulators were riding back to Lincoln, New Mexico. Billy wanted Bowdre to stay with his wife, but Bowdre instead chose to join his "pals", and he was killed in a shootout in 1880. His remains were returned to his wife.